A huge number of people like owning cars. If there is price pressure from a law, there will be massive political pressure to change that law.
Move higher up and "personal city on the moon" becomes the status symbol. Move lower down and it's still cars. What type of car, and what modifications it has, etc, become quite important talking points.
A recent SMBC seems to me to explain it well: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/esteem-2
The bonus panel is hilarious!
And the more you customize your truck, the "higher" your status. To the point where you get ridiculous monstrosities like this https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCPjEi.... There is no point to this besides to declare ones status.
Hell even closer to your bubble of private jets and yachts, plenty of high net worth people collect expensive and rare cars. It is a major status symbol to say they have 1 of 500 La Ferraris made or 1 of 375 McLaren P1's.
For what it's worth, I live in the Deep South and while I do see bumper stickers of that sort every now and then, the sentiment behind it is generally just banter. Most people with one probably have three or four identities more important than "I'm a Dodge guy", whether it be "I'm a Christian", "I'm a father", or what have you.
Anything for that sweet chinese money.
EVs benefit china. Period. Gavin Newsom met with Xi recently. Probably to collect his paycheck for enacting the law to phase out ICEs by 2030.
Why cant democrat supporters connect the dots.
Because there's no dots to connect.
Related: Dems probably know what a question mark is and where it should be used.
You don't see the surging crime in cities as a problem?
You don't see inflation as a problem?
Do you live under a bridge?
How about these for questions.
Democrats have their heads in the sand on these issues. We are a bleeding lamb, it's no coincidence Russia and Iran made military moves because we are
W E A K.
Maybe it is a coincidence to you. Democrats seem more concerned with letting trans men compete un women sports than any of them above.
We have bmw, VW, Mercedes etc here.
A lot of people I personally know work for bmw.
Your conspiracy doesn't make sense. No German politican would ever ty to hurt the German automotive sector.
And we don't have that many it people we have a ton of German engineers
The same German politicians that shutdown nuclear reactors making Germany more dependent on fossil fuels like coal?
The green got there energy politics as promised.
This is not contraire to what I said.
They think the way the world still sees us is and favorable and we project a strong image abroad. The world sees what's happening with the uncontained migration, crime surges in the city, and with the inflation and they see weakness.
How you can be living in this and not see it is beyond my rational.
Perhaps its the same dunning Kruger effect is making you not be able to see that your politicians have sold you out your car industry to foreign entities that include an alliance of Russia China and Iran.
Your auto industry cannot compete. I have lived in China they are so far ahead of the EV market its a joke what's more, they own a monopoly on lithium production who do you think we will come begging to with an ev transition. It's sad. I hope you can start to question the madness these dirty politicians sold us out for.
Not explicitly. But new gas stations will stop being built. For-hire cars mandated to go electric. Parking spaces reserved for electric cars only. Perhaps HOAs that ban the running of combustion engines on their streets. Nudges here and there that make it more annoying and expensive to own a gas car.